CHAPTER 191

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[Thor Odinson POV]

"Let's dance little brother!" Hela grinned, summoning a few hundred blades around me.

Seeing this, I began to move forward, one step at a time before blasting once again towards her. Grinning Hela commanded her blades to attack, but with a pulse of electricity, I burned all her blades to dust, before swinging my hammer at her.

Smiling, Hela moved her hand forward, stopping my attack with the palm of her hand, as, behind me, a large massive blade appeared a few hundred meters above me, before plummeting towards me at a blinding speed, however, I decided to reply to her gesture in kind.

Merely stretching out my arm like she had done, stopping her attack. Before sending an energy pulse through the entire blade that caused the blade to break into many small pieces that rained above us.

"You are learning," Hela smiled in delight, the ground cracking beneath her, as her energy fluctuated in excitement before she kicked me away with a powerful kick, right away forming another massive blade in front of her, but unlike all her other blades, this once felt different..

Somehow knowing I would not be able to dodge that particular blade, I crossed my arms in front and braced the incoming attack, that as I had foreseen moved faster than my eye could perceive, one moment the blade was hovering above the ground, the next it was pushing against my arms with violent force.

In a clash of power, my legs dug deep into the ground as I recoiled under her attack, before blasting the sword into pieces with the clap of a thunder. 

Grinning, Hela rushed at me summoning several blades around me, plus two for her hands, before our weapons once again clashed together.

"I'm impressed you survived that attack, though not unscathed," Hela chuckled, looking at my bleeding arms.

"It will take more than that to stop me," I roared, slamming my fist into her face before kicking her away.

"I sure hope so," Hela laughed turning in the air, positioning herself to land to land on her feet.

I growled, charging Mjolnir with my power before blasting at Hela, thunderbolt after thunderbolt. However, Hela started to for the lack of another word, dance around my attacks, dispelling each and every single thunderbolt with a single swing of her blade each, while at the same time closing the gap between us.

Seeing this, I swung my hammer downwards at her, to which Hela grabbed my wrist before proceeding to throw me high into the air, putting me upside down in the air, before pulling down my arm, slamming me headfirst into the ground with ground shattering strength, all in one flawless motion.

With no time to process the pain, or what had happened, I pushed myself to the side using my lightning to gain immediate momentum, barely dodging as hundreds of small blades emerged in the location she had just slammed me.

"Bravo," Hela clapped, as I jumped to my feet.

My nose was bleeding, and so were my arms, and I was sixty percent sure I had a rib or two broken after that attack, things were starting to weigh on me, little by little.

"It's commendable really, surviving so long against me it's not an easy task," Hela complimented, before sighing, "Though, seeing such resistance, even though is futile pains me."

I scoffed, spitting some blood to the side, "I had had worse, Alex kicked my ass to the brink of death more than once," I grinned, pointing my hammer at her, "This is nothing compared to our sparring matches, this is nothing compared to an enemy I faced moments before becoming a King, so bring it on!" I challenged with a roar, blood spluttering from my mouth to the ground.

"I'm glad my future King lives to the expectations I had of him," Hela smiled, holding one of her blades close to her heart, "I suppose I have to step up my game if I wish to impress you then?" she chuckled, swinging her blades around as if to stretch her muscles.

I got into position.

After that absurdly fast blade attack, I would not assume I can dodge her attacks.

"Bring it on!" I guffawed, after all, I just had to hold for a bit longer, and my friends would come to help me end this.

"As you wish," Hela grinned, hurling her blades at me, but her movements didn't stop there, each swing of her empty hand would send a blade my way, a blade that would materialize immediately with each movement of her hand.

Taking a firm stance, I started to spin Mjolnir in front of me while also charging it with power, creating a shield against her blades that crashed and broke upon impact.

Smiling, Hela continued, her motions changing.

For a very brief second, I didn't know what change would a different set of motions bring, but then, I realized as I felt her energy span across the field, now I would have to expect attacks from every conceivable direction.

Realizing this, I threw my hammer to the sky, holding to the leather strap of Mjolnir to flight with it, narrowly avoiding a few blades that emerged from the ground and from the trees around me.

Unfortunately, I had not managed to dodge the attack in its entirety, with some of the blades having managed to cut me in multiple places.

"Don't sleep on me now," Hela smiled, as a shadow appeared above me, then one more, and more and more, until the entire visible sky was covered in blades of varying sizes.

I looked at her in horror, realizing what else she was cooking, the entire ground as well, was now a field of swords ready to pierce me. This attack was unavoidable, I had to either destroy it with my power or find a way to tank it.

"Let's see how you deal with that," Hela smiled, snapping her fingers, a motion that seemed to order all the blades, both those in the sky and the ground to blast at me, all at once.

I grinned, baring my fangs at Hela as I laughed, "I will show you!" I was not ready to die.

Not by a long shot.

I owe my people that much.

So, mustering the power I could, I charged my movie with it, ready to explode at command, this would not kill me, it would hurt me like hell, but it would ensure a better defense when I used it, repelling the blades.

However, before the blades reached me and I activated my last resort defense, several portals opened all around me, caging me in a circular prison of portals.

"What a nasty attack," That voice, the old lady had finally arrived, HELL YES!

"Leave," Hela ordered in an irritated tone, as the portals around me started to close.

"I don't recall ever following your orders," The Ancient One chuckled, giving a potion, one of Alex's.

I grinned, taking the potion with a beaming smile, "I almost kicked the bucket there," I laughed, drinking the potion, as Hela watched in shock how all my wounds started to heal.

"Have one of this too," The Ancient One smiled, giving me a blue potion, the ones used to restore energy or mana as Alex said.

"Don't mind if I do," I nodded, snatching the potion of her hands before drinking it, "How's everyone?"

"The evacuation is almost complete, so in a few moments, the rest should join us," The Ancient One replied.

"So this is your honor as a King?" Hela spat, clearly overtaken by anger at the moment.

"Honor? It seems you misunderstood me, Hela, I didn't come here for honor, but to kill you," I replied, my tone cold and piercing.

"Besides, are you really in any position to talk about Honor?" The Ancient One smiled, tilting her head to the side, "After all, you sealed Alex out of fear he would stop you, if anything, you are the honorless one."

Hela laughed, seemingly returning to her usual demeanor, "Very well then, the amount of roaches won't change a thing, so fight me to your heart's content."

"If you insist," The Ancient One replied, her demeanor doing one-eighty turn, as she glared at Hela with an icy, borderline heartless look, "Don't start complaining later on."